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...HAVE BEEN WARNED Remember those Rocky Horror Picture Show sing-alongs, where folks went to the movie dressed up as Brad and Janet? Starting its tour in Britain this week, and planning to hit American shores shortly after, is the Sound of Music Sing-a-Long-a, where moviegoers arrive in nun outfits, in lederhosen or as the whole family Von Trapp. Singing along (the songs are subtitled) is encouraged. Dancing, booing Nazis and whistling are optional. Foam nuns are available in the lobby...
...speedy turnaround time of e-publishing appeals to established authors as well as newbies. "I'd turn a book in, and two years later it would come out," says Douglas Clegg, a New York City horror writer with nine published novels under his belt and two more in the hands of Dorchester Publishing. So Clegg got Dorchester to sponsor an e-mail serialization of his latest work, Naomi, a "haunted love story." Four thousand people signed up to receive free weekly chapters last summer. Clegg plans another e-mail serial in June. The money Dorchester kicked into the project went...
...other hand, even the smartest kid doesn't have the same perspective on his actions that the dumbest adult has." Experts don't expect the Michigan legislature to be much moved by Judge Moore's pleas for a more humane approach to juvenile justice; it seems the current horror at a rash of felonies committed by children outweighs any desire for a more age-appropriate treatment of young criminals...
...time, feeling no embarrassment about changing his mind: to do so was a sign of authentic judgment. He was still in his 20s when he began writing art criticism, and his first reaction to "radical" Modernism, which hit him in the 1913 Armory Show, was one of utter horror--Cezanne and Van Gogh were "unbalanced fanatics," Cubism "simply ridiculous," Matisse "insanely, repulsively depraved...
...going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes." Eliot's nervous collage can only evoke the low vitality of his cityscape; he cannot embrace it. There are too many "young men carbuncular" within its limits, deceiving themselves with "systematic lies," failing to acknowledge "the agony and horror of modern life...